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The Aesthetics of Disengagement: Contemporary Art and Depression

The Aesthetics of Disengagement: Contemporary Art and...

Author: Christine Ross
ISBN: 9780816645398
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Reveals the artistic subjectivity of the scientific notion of depression.  Read More >>

Convergence

Convergence

Author: Damon Soule ,  David Choong Lee
ISBN: 9781584232360
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Art and Enlightenment: Aesthetic Theory after Adorno

Art and Enlightenment: Aesthetic Theory after Adorno...

Author: David Roberts
ISBN: 9780803290105
Format: Paperback
$47.52

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Surrealism and Cinema

Surrealism and Cinema

Author: Michael Richardson
ISBN: 9781845202262
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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Art & Alchemy

Art & Alchemy

Author: Jacob Wamberg
ISBN: 9788763502672
Format: Paperback
$137.28

This collection of articles covering the time span from the Late Middle Ages to the twentieth century intends to...  Read More >>

The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art

The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art

Author: Mark Rothko ,  Christopher Rothko
ISBN: 9780300115857
Format: Paperback
$52.80

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Shadows of Reality: The Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought

Shadows of Reality: The Fourth Dimension in Relativity,...

Author: Tony Robbin
ISBN: 9780300110395
Format: Hardback
$107.95

Investigates different models of the fourth dimension and how these are applied in art and physics. The author explores...  Read More >>

Surrealism and Cinema

Surrealism and Cinema

Author: Michael Richardson
ISBN: 9781845202255
Format: Hardback
$240.00

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Writings on Art

Writings on Art

Author: Mark Rothko ,  Miguel Lopez-Remiro
ISBN: 9780300114409
Format: Hardback
$58.95

Includes 90 documents, short essays, letters, statements and lectures, written by Rothko. This book includes annotation...  Read More >>

Visual Culture: The Study of the Visual after the Cultural Turn

Visual Culture: The Study of the Visual after the Cultural...

Author: Margaret Dikovitskaya
ISBN: 9780262541886
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The history, theoretical frameworks, methodology, and pedagogy of the new field of visual culture; current debates...  Read More >>

Art of Illusion: The Representation of Art History in Nineteenth-Century Germany and Beyond

Art of Illusion: The Representation of Art History in...

Author: Dan Karlholm (Sodertorn University)
ISBN: 9780820483610
Format: Paperback
$139.79

Chapters in this volume are: 'The Image/Text of Art History', 'The Virtual Museum of Art History', 'The Journey...  Read More >>

Prosthetic Gods

Prosthetic Gods

Author: Hal Foster (Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780262562812
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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New Philosophy for New Media

New Philosophy for New Media

Author: Mark B. N. Hansen (Duke University) ,  Timothy Lenoir
ISBN: 9780262582667
Format: Paperback
$60.59

A philosophy of new media that defines the digital image as the process by which the body filters information to...  Read More >>

Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975–2001

Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975–2001...

Author: Martha Rosler
ISBN: 9780262681582
Format: Paperback
$68.51

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Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life

Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life

Author: Mitchell Whitelaw
ISBN: 9780262731768
Format: Paperback
$44.75

The first detailed examination of a-life art, where new media artists adopt, and adapt, techniques from artificial...  Read More >>

Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s

Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s

Author: Pamela M. Lee (Professor of Art History, Stanford University)
ISBN: 9780262622035
Format: Paperback
$65.87

An examination of the pervasive anxiety about and fixation with time seen in 1960s art.  Read More >>

The Nature of Art: An Anthology

The Nature of Art: An Anthology

Author: Thomas Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College)
ISBN: 9780495093558
Format: Paperback
$269.15

What is art? THE NATURE OF ART: AN ANTHOLOGY explores that question and shows you how it's been answered over the...  Read More >>

The Lure of the Object

The Lure of the Object

Author: Stephen Melville ,  Emily Apter
ISBN: 9780300103373
Format: Paperback
$65.87

With contributions by Emily Apter, George Baker, Malcolm Baker, John Brewer, Martha Buskirk, Margaret Iversen, Ewa...  Read More >>

Think/Write Art Under Art 8e

Think/Write Art Under Art 8e

Author: Fichner-Rathus
ISBN: 9780495091257
Format: Book
$145.07

This critical thinking workbook, written by Lois Fichner-Rathus, helps enhance students' interpretive and compositional...  Read More >>

David Robbins: The Velvet Grind: Selected Essays, Interviews, Satires (1983-2005)

David Robbins: The Velvet Grind: Selected Essays, Interviews,...

Author: Fabrice Stroun ,  Lionel Bovier
ISBN: 9783905701029
Format: Paperback
$58.08

Asked to contribute to Artforum's “Top Ten” column, David Robbins used one of his entries for “Electricity: That...  Read More >>

Time's Visible Surface: Alois Riegl and the Discourse on History and Temporality in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna

Time's Visible Surface: Alois Riegl and the Discourse...

Author: Michael Gubser
ISBN: 9780814332085
Format: Hardback
$145.07

Presents Riegl's work as an examination of the categories of temporality and history in art. Supported by exploration...  Read More >>

Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship

Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship...

Author: Cathy Byrd
ISBN: 9780977689408
Format: Hardback
$79.07

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What Good Are the Arts?

What Good Are the Arts?

Author: John Carey
ISBN: 9780195305548
Format: Hardback
$59.95

Do the arts make us better people? Why should ""high"" art be thought higher than ""low""? In the first part of...  Read More >>

World Question Center (reloaded)

World Question Center (reloaded)

Author:
ISBN: 9783865882202
Format: Hardback
$19.41

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Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles...

Author: David W. Galenson
ISBN: 9780691121093
Format: Hardback
$126.59

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